Chapters (9)
A BABY
A BABY WILL BE COMING OUT OF ME
IN NINE MONTHS A BABY WILL COME OUT OF ME
You said you were going to paint the room
It doesn’t matter what colour it is, she won’t notice
I don’t think it’s sunk in I don’t think it’ll ever sink in I think
I’m the first woman in the world to not entirely realise a
BABY IS COMING OUT OF ME
I’M GOING TO BREAK SOMETHING SOMETHING’S WRONG SOMETHING’S WRONG MY SPINE IS GOING TO
Oh
you’re looking right at me
i think i was expecting a thing but you’re a person aren’t you
I’m just saying it’s very good timing you read that article as it means
I’m the one that has to get up to do All The Feeding
Your brother has a job and is doing really well
I don’t have a mother I am a mother and I don’t have a mother
I need an adult I need a grown up
My nipples feel like they need replacing
My dad is a grandad my dad is old my dad somehow looks smaller than the baby when he’s holding the baby the baby is my baby that’s my daughtereveryonedies I have a daughter Don’t drop her
Don’t throw her
Don’t step on her
Don’t sit on her
Don’t poison her
Don’t choke her
Don’t set her alight
Don’t electrocute her
Don’t drown her
Don’t cut her into bits no
No I want you to keep working on your film I’m too tired to do much else than sit with her anyway you’re very talented don’t say that keep going you need to use this time because once I’m back at work
Back at work
Back at work
Back in this car at this time of day with this radio I don’t even like this show why do I listen to this every day driving to work
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That’s called Motor Skill and she’s meant to be better at it by now
So she’s clumsy she’s our lovely clumsy girl
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I always thought we’d have three
We can barely manage with one
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The cost of childcare is obscene actually obscene
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